Swap character names?

Post by chaarrllee

Is there any way Blizzard can just swap the names of some of your characters instead of doing a name change for each one?

Thanks.

Post by Adamsm

Nope.

Post by valdarin

Be careful with that, too, because if you name change a character the old name becomes locked for some amount of time. 90 days IIRC.

Post by Avae

If saving the old name is important to you, spend the extra $5 for an Appearance Change. If you rename your character using the Appearance Change service, you can immediately save your old name after. This cannot be done if you use the Name Change service because, as stated above by Valdarin, it will lock the old name for 90 days.

Post by ju2au

I had something very similar done to me.

On my main account, I got a rogue named "Igankyou". On another account, within the same Battlenet account, I got another toon named "Teebu".

Now, I want to change the name of "Igankyou" to "Teebu" after I got hold of but the name "Teebu" is already held by one of my other characters. I submitted a ticket to Blizzard asking them what they can do about it.

After a whole day of waiting, a GM got back to me and stated that he found a solution to my dilema. He renamed both my characters by adding "xyz" to the end of both names. The toons are now named "Igankyouxyz" and "Teebuxyz".

Then, it was a simple matter of renaming the toons with the Paid Name Change service. The old names were locked for 90 days to the Battlenet account (names belonging to toons level 60 and over are subjected to this restriction). But since both toons belong to the same Battlenet account, there were no issues.

Post by Nulgar

Just to emphasize, do exactly what ju2au explained - if you find a GM in the right mood, they will give at least one of the characters a temporary name, and then you can swap the names in two Paid Name Changes rather than three. However, you will still need to pay for two, as you change the names of two characters, not one.

Post by Kemaria

Be careful with that, too, because if you name change a character the old name becomes locked for some amount of time. 90 days IIRC.

Yep, this is true. I did a name swap on two of my characters once after it became apparent that my old main, Avendesora, was no longer my main, and yet it was my favorite toon name. So I renamed the old Avendesora, and then for an agonizing 3 months or so, the name wasn't available to use. I kept checking constantly, though, and got lucky enough to take it back on my new main, so it worked out for me in the end. Just be vigilant in checking to see when your old name is available, as a GM told me the 90 days isn't exact, but they have no way of pinning down precisely when the name is available again.

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